Motivational Quotes

Music

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

- Armstrong, Louis

Best Quotes about Music

Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

Johnson, Samuel

Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.

Lingerman, Hal A.

The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing.

Bacall, Lauren

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

Virgil Thomson

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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Music, moody food of us that trade in love.

William Shakespeare

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Kin Hubbard

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Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

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The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

Shakespeare, William

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Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Starr, Ringo

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Music is the vernacular of the human soul.

Latham, Geoffrey

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, or using it as wallpaper for their lifestyles, like the score of a movie --it's consumed that way without any regard for how and why it's made.

Zappa, Frank

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Wilde, Oscar

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Igor Stravinsky

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A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Giles, Henry

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Plato

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I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

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A good composer is slowly discovered a bad composer is slowly found out.

Newman, Ernest

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Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

Luther, Martin

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Lutoslawski, Witold

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.

Oscar Wilde

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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

Martin Luther

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Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Hugo, Victor

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Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Miller, Henry

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.

Luther, Martin

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I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it in front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Taylor, James

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour!

William Shakespeare

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I know only two tunes. One them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't.

Grant, Ulysses S.

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Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

J. K. Rowling

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If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

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Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.